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Ifothers be partakers of this power over you, are notwerather?Nevertheless we havenotusedthispower;butsuffer all things,lest we should*hinder the gospel of Christ.
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Do yenotknowthat they which minister about holy thingslive[a] of the things of the temple? and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar?
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Evensohath the Lordordained that they which preach the gospel should liveof the gospel.
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ButI have usednone of these things*: neither have I written these things,that it should besodoneuntome:for it were better for me to die*, thanthat any man should makemygloryingvoid.
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Forthough I preach the gospel, Ihavenothing to glory of:fornecessity is laid uponme;yea,woeis unto me,if I preachnot the gospel!
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Forif I do this thingwillingly, I have a reward:butif against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me.
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Whatismyrewardthen? Verily that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge,that I abusenotmypowerin the gospel.
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For though I befreefromall men, yet have I mademyselfservant unto all,that I might gain the more.
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And unto the Jews I becameas a Jew,that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law,asunder the law,that I might gain them that are under the law;
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To them that are without law,as without law,* (being not without law to God,but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law.
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To the weak became Iasweak,that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all meanssavesome.